That's great Joerg, thanks for letting me know!

- Michael

I just tried out the v4 beta and I noticed that the right mouse button doesn't cancel actions anymore.

Hi Andre,

re:
> I just tried out the v4 beta and I noticed that the right mouse button doesn't cancel actions anymore.

That's correct, that's a change to the default behavior discussed previously here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=8966.13

You can switch it back to v3 behavior by an option in moi.ini . Go to Options > "Edit .ini file", and find this setting:

[View]
<...>
DoRightClickCancel=n


Set it to say =y instead and you should get the old right-click canceling behavior back.

- Michael

On little finding here, is that the viewport goes black after turning my monitors off and on again.
Graphics driver or Moi issue?

Bests,
Morten

Hi Morten, most likely a driver issue. I would recommend checking your video card manufacture's web site to see if there is a newer version you can update to.

- Michael

A simple question: can I install the new beta without having any problem with the already installed old version? I mean can I have both of them installed in the same computer?

The last beta V 4 can be installed without problem on the same computer if you have yet the V 3!
You can even install the alternate demo infinite without save! ;) (V 3)

The previous betas are time limited so don't work any more!

Thanks Pilou! : - )

Hi Dimitri, yes like Pilou says above you can install the current v4 beta alongside any other version of MoI. By default they will go into their own separately named install folders and not directly on top of each other.

- Michael

Thanks Michael! : - )

Hey all! I hope the ones on a holiday are enjoying it!

Not sure if this is intended, user error, misunderstanding of the tool on my part or a bug, but I will leave it here. The object on the right is the profile of the sweep on the left. When I try to modify a point I get this behavior which I find puzzling :))

Hi nameless, can you please post the .3dm model file with the objects in it that you show there?

- Michael

Hey Michael! :) I edited the original message with the .gif and added a 3dm. Let me know if you need anything else.

Keep in mind that I fiddled with MoI's scale as you know and it could be related to that.

Hi nameless, so there's a thing built in to Sweep called "autoplace mode" which determines whether the sweep should start directly from the curve as given, or whether the profile should be moved and rotated to the start of the path curve and then swept starting from there.

Autoplace mode is implicitly turned on or off depending on whether the profile curve is inside the bounding box around the rail or outside of the rail's bounding box.

So your weird result is happening because autoplace mode is off somehow during the history update. That seems like a bug so I'll investigate why it is off then. Other kinds of edits like move/rotate/scale of the whole profile curve seem to be working ok, it's during a control point edit that it looks like there is an autoplace bug.

- Michael

I see! That solves the mystery :) Thank you for looking into it Michael.

And in danger of a mild thread highjack- I have been trying to find a way to map something like this-> script:moi.ui.getActiveViewport().Zoom( 0.9 ); on my mouse wheel in an attempt to mitigate the jump caused by the small scale issue we were talking about. Is by any chance any .ini setting describing what the mouse wheel scroll does inside MoI? Or a way to smuggle a Ctrl press along with it :))

Hi nameless, re: mouse wheel - currently if you hold down Ctrl and use the mouse wheel it will take a smaller step size than the regular one, is that what you mean? There isn't currently any way to adjust the speed in moi.ini though.

Also the history bug looks like a regression in v4 - v3 seems to behave properly. So that might also help me to track down the bug.

- Michael

Wow, I fished a V4 specific bug?! :)

I temporarily solved the other issue. I used a free program called XMouseButtonControl (which I recommend!) that lets you customize all aspects of mouse behavior and has program specific profiles. So when I load MoI, my scroll has the Ctrl modifier attached. Seems like an awesome utility. Now I can navigate my tiny MoI Viewport without teleporting!

Hi Michael,

great features, the Area and Volume Details help a lot!

A nice feature would be to be able to define different units for them. Engineering designs are in mm (in Europe) but we purchase materials e.g. in liters (dm3) or m2 or calculate the weight based on roh in cm3 or need volumes in m3 as it's a standard unit for calculations. Of course we are all able do the math but it would be a nice-to-have.

S.

Hi skipper I'm glad the area and volume calculations will be helpful!

I do want to enable switching those to different units like you're asking but it probably won't get done in the v4 time frame.

Thanks, - Michael

Hi Michael,

Could object scale place a cap on the number of polys I can get during .obj export? I have a solid that seems to be unaffected by anything smaller than 3 decimals (in divide larger than field of the exporter). I usually can ramp up the resolution, but now it caps at 400k polys. :O